For critics of the Minnesota buffer-strip law, the easy solution is to present a viable alternative plan that would have the same desired effect. The buffer-strip law is an attempt to slow the ...

Earl Benson welcomed the news this summer that Minnesota lawmakers had struck a deal to bolster the protective vegetative buffer strips along the state’s rivers and lakes. Studies show strips of ...

There have been many different issues brought to my attention during the legislative session by constituents, colleagues, and others. However, one that I have been made increasingly aware of is a ...

Ever since Gov. Mark Dayton won re-election in November, he has been on the attack against Minnesota farmers. Using a land-grabbing travesty of a 50-foot buffer proposal, he has toured the state ...